When Evening Spiker is miraculously cured from a near-death experience, she knows something is up.  She is one that is rarely sick and hardly ever gets cuts or bruises, but Eve thought she was just a healthy person.  But is this really the case?  Soon, her mother asks her to preform a difficult task.  Eve is told to create the perfect boy (Adam).  She gets to decide everything.  His looks, personality, even some of his hobbies.  Eve is taking God’s roll.  Meanwhile Eve has her eye on a mysterious boy who she hasn’t quite figure out.  Together, they reveal some insane secrets.  In the book,  “Eve and Adam” by Michael Frond and Katherine Applegate I learned that new technology enables scientific discoveries have an effect on people.

            In the book when Adam is created, the results of his existence are surprising yet expected.  He stands out as being abnormally perfect.  People stare at him in awe as he walks down the street.  One person casually wonders if he is a movie star or a perhaps model.  Adam is literally flawless.  These aspects of his formation taught me that people try so hard to be perfect or “normal” when the funny thing is, when you actually are, you stand out.  People would look at Adam and could immediately figure him out.  There were no secrets hiding under any imperfections.  These things made me discover that scientific inventions have an effect on people.  Adam’s existence helped a few secondary characters realize that perfection isn’t enjoyable.  This book helped me to understand that surprising twists and turns help to shape a person.

            Later in “Eve and Adam”, Eve finds out that she is a “mod”, a genetically modified experiment.  When she ways younger and very sick, her parents decided to use a never tested before drug on her to save her life.  The drug made it so it was impossible for her to be sick or injured for more than a few days.  I was surprised by how well she took the news when she first found out.  In the book, Eve says,  “…I have amounts to a superpower.  I can heal with speed and completeness that’s unbelievable.  I could be a comic book hero.”  This shows that Eve is almost excited to have this capability.  Although she seems to be cooping with the facts well, she is still confused.  Solo, her mystery man, explains that he is a “mod” as well.  Solo is able to answer some questions.  Sharing the same secret brings the two even closer.  This scientific alteration was able to effect Eve and Solo’s lives.  It built them a stronger relationship.

            When Eve is given the photos of horrific creatures her mother and fellow colleagues are supposedly constructing, she feels disgusted.  The book reads, “A cow that all out of proportion, with an udder so large the legs couldn’t reach the ground, even if she were on the ground and not floating in some kind of tank…I twist around, fall to my knees, and get the lid up before I vomit up what little is in my twisting stomach.”  Eve is so upset with her mother that she actually vomits.  It was difficult for Eve to accept the fact that science can be evil.  It was strange to discover the things a world can be capable of.  Eve is disappointed in her mother for making decisions that could create huge problems and wreck so many lives.  Solo is upset with Ms. Spiker for not feeling ashamed of the harm she is causing.  Later, we find out that Ms. Spiker had nothing to be guilty about but other scientists are.  If the scientists had not created those disturbing beasts, Eve would not have had to question her own mother but then there would not be a story

            In the book, “Eve and Adam”, I dissected a topic that I had barely touched before.   Science Fiction.  I thought it was interesting to read a book that had a logical reason to everything that seemed unreal.  The book made me realize that science discoveries effect lives emotionally and physically.  The physical alterations cause emotional realizations.  Overall, I enjoyed this book.  It was a bit repetitive at times but it had me at the edge of my seat for most of the book.  “Eve and Adam” has inspired me to read more science fiction.